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Building & Construction

At DuPont, we're focused on dynamic science that generates real-world solutions. That's why DuPont is at the forefront of building science, with brands you depend on, like Tyvek®, SentryGlas®, Corian® solid surfaces, Zodiaq® quartz surfaces and Kevlar®.

Electronics

By connecting science and technology from across the company, DuPont has become a leading supplier of electronic and advanced display materials. DuPont offers a broad portfolio of ceramic, flexible and rigid organic circuit materials, materials for semiconductor fabrication and packaging.

Energy

With the world’s population projected to surpass 9 billion by 2050, now is the time to prepare for a secure energy future. We invite you to collaborate with our global teams to find science-driven, sustainable energy solutions.

Food & Beverage

At DuPont, we're putting science to work in the food and beverage industry — improving the nutritional value of food, ensuring food safety, and finding smart, sustainable solutions to feed a growing population.

Health Care & Medical

DuPont offers a broad range of healthcare products and high-performance materials that help create safer healthcare environments, contribute to innovations in medical devices and help protect the health of patients and healthcare providers worldwide.

Marine

Mining

Dupont Mining products and services help improve extraction, personal protection, safety and more. Processing and transporting of highly abrasive and corrosive, bitumen, slurry and tailings require the innovation and technology that DuPont can provide.

Safety & Protection

In the face of growing global industrialization, DuPont takes safety and protection seriously. Learn how DuPont continues to improve upon its materials and workplace safety performance to help keep all of us safe in the toughest conditions.

The DuPont Bradley Curve

Designed to help clients understand and benchmark the journey toward world-class safety performance, this proven, proprietary system has helped enable safety success within DuPont, and for our clients around the world, since 1995.

Using the DuPont Bradley Curve, DuPont Sustainable Solutions consultants help our clients in diverse industries and countries to understand the development of an effective safety culture, from its earliest stages to a mature state.

In a mature safety culture, safety is truly sustainable, with injury rates approaching zero. People feel empowered to take action as needed to work safely. They support and challenge each other. Decisions are made at the appropriate level and people live by those decisions. The organization, as a whole, realizes significant business benefits in higher quality, greater productivity, and increased profits.

Understanding the Bradley Curve The Bradley Curve makes it simple for everyone to understand the shifts in mind-set and actions that need to occur over time to develop a mature safety culture.

Reactive Stage People do not take responsibility. They believe that safety is more a matter of luck than management, and that “accidents will happen.” And over time, they do.

Dependent Stage People see safety as a matter of following rules that someone else makes. Accident rates decrease and management believes that safety could be managed “if only people would follow the rules.”

Independent Stage Individuals take responsibility for themselves. People believe that safety is personal, and that they can make a difference with their own actions. This reduces accidents further.

Interdependent Stage Teams of employees feel ownership for safety, and take responsibility for themselves and others. People do not accept low standards and risk-taking. They actively converse with others to understand their point of view. They believe true improvement can only be achieved as a group, and that zero injuries is an attainable goal.

The Proven Value of Safety Culture

In 2009, DuPont Sustainable Solutions conducted a study that demonstrated a direct correlation between the strength of an organization’s safety culture and its injury frequency rate and sustainable safety performance, as predicted by the Bradley Curve. Based on data collected since 1999 in our Safety Perceptions Survey, the study included 427,000 responses covering 64 industries, 41 countries, and more than 1,800 plant sites, including “best” and “worst” performing organizations. Today, our database features more than 750,000 responses.

The findings of this study, as well as the vast experience of our consultants working with clients around the world, make the benefits of a strong safety culture clear. By strengthening its safety culture, an organization can predictably reduce workforce injuries, even as it improves productivity, quality, and profits, as a result.

DuPont Sustainable Solutions interviewed business leaders across a host of industries in North America to better understand the key opportunities and issues facing organizations today and to learn about the steps that each is taking to address them. A summary of the findings is categorized based upon how the challenges and solutions either add to or detract from the value that an organization delivers to its stakeholders.

The management of process safety and operational risk is a great opportunity for companies to predict and control the risks in their operations and production processes. Many CEO's have said that what keeps them awake at night is the possibility of a "serious incident" that could bring down a company. Srinivasan Ramabhadran, Global Leader of Process Safety Management and Operational Risks, speaks to Vias Expeciales about this topic.

Learn how these solutions help companies address technical skill shortages – an unintended consequence of demographic change – by building capabilities related to proper handling of hazardous materials.